It had been the good-looking young detective and the woman officer who had interviewed her, and she had sensed that they were quietly sympathetic. Bu… - P. D. James

Cordelia read the inscription carved deep on the headstone. "At rest": the commonest epitaph of a generation to whom rest must have seemed the ultimate luxury, the supreme benediction.
"It's a nice stone, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is. I was admiring the lettering."
"Cut deep, that is. It cost a mint of money but it was worth it. That'll last, you see. Half the lettering here won't, it's that shallow. It takes the pleasure out of a cemetery. I like to read the grave stones, like to know who people were and when they died and how long the women lived after they buried their men. It sets you wondering how they managed and whether they were lonely. There's no use in a stone if you can't read the lettering."

One of my earliest loves was the Book of Common Prayer. I was seduced by it, by its beautiful words and the sense of history.

I don't want to kill you.